Bedstead



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER HINDS, OF KENDALLS MILLS, MAINE.

BEDSTEAD.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 17,569, dated June 16, 1857.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER HINDs, ot Kendalls Mills, in the town of Fairfield, in the county of Somerset and State of Maine, have invented an Improved Turn-Up Bedstead, and do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l, is a top view of the bedstead when in a horizontal position. Fig. 2, is a side elevation of it. Fig. 3, is a side view of it as it appears, when turned up into a vertical position. Fig. t, is a top view of the bedstead without the bedding applied to it. Fig. 5, is a longitudinal section taken through two corner posts, so as to show the two sockets made in each of the secondary posts.

In these drawings, A, denotes a bedstead trame composed of four short posts, a, a, a, a, and head and toot boards, o, o. This frame is so hinged to a standing frame, B, as to be capable of being turned from a horizontal into a vertical position or from the latter to the former as circumstances may require.

The frame, A, is provided with a sacking or two straining bars, C, D, each being furnished with a series of holes for the reception of a cord, CZ, to be laced through the two bars, and for supporting the mattress or bed, E, when placed upon it.

Each corner post, a, has two mortises or sockets, f, gomade in it, one being extended vertically into and down from the top of the post, while the other is arranged horizontally in the post as shown in Fig. 5. These sockets or mortises are for the reception of a tenon, made in one end of a secondary post, F, which may be arranged either in the horizontal mortise or the vertical one. When placed in the vertical mortise, such secondary post may serve as a support for a bed curtain or tester. Each two secondary posts have lines or bands, z', z', extended from one to the other as shown in Fig. l, such lines when the said parts are arranged in the horizontal mortises of the primary parts serving to maintain the bedding on the bedstead when the latter is turned up into a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 3.

The lower ends of the two foot posts may be respectively provided with sockets 7c, lo, for the reception of tenons, l, Z, from legs G, G, which serve to support the bedstead when it is in a horizontal position.

What I claim is- My improved turn-up bedstead constructed substantially as described with two sets of sockets in its bed posts and with movable or secondary posts, provided with connecting lines or bands by which when the bed `is turned up into a vertical position the bedding may be maintained in place thereon as specified.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my signature.

PETER HINDS.

Witnesses E. H. BoYLE, BENJ. J. I-IINDS. 

